Show heart girth and weight every dairyman who has his cows tested regularly and that should include all dairymen who are in the business for a living should know the weight of each cow under test for farms with wagon scales tills I 1 Is easy but other dairymen may use the method of estimating the wel weight glit according to the heart girth a well established and sufficiently reliable system the bureau of dairy industry has recently completed a new table of weights based on american type holsteins nol steins and jerseys by this table and a good tapeline you can come within a few pounds of the true weight of any cow from a peewee of 50 inches girth weighing pounds to a monster of 02 92 inches weighing 1075 farm journal |